Literally only USA ever thought USA was the good guys
Ehhhh, we had a perception as the big damn heroes after tipping the scales in WW2 and then with the founding of the UN, being the only member state that wasn’t devastated by WW2, positioning us as the de facto enforcer. There was some very limited good work done in that context that got good press in Europe. But we were also overthrowing democratic south American nations nonstop during that time… And everything since…
There have been times that others thought we were the good guys, but they were probably just wrong.
Nobody pushes drugs.
Americans gobble up drugs like Hungry Hippos and the cartels are just violent psychopaths that want to be the distributors.
Lmao, you do realize that drugs are a global thing, right?
They are.
If you look up who consumes the most drugs I think you’ll find some really fun facts. Not only do more people in the US consume drugs but the quantity is also noticeably higher than anyone else.
The pusher theory is bs. Nobody is out there handing out free drugs to get people hooked.
well…not free, but big pharma has been caught many times bribing doctors to over-perscribe addictive medications to their patients
Big pharma is the pusher that cartels are accused of being.
And the CIA had a hand in the Opium trade in Afghanistan while we were there.
The US is comically evil abroad, and getting worse domestically every day.
Fascism is imperialism turned inward. The US fears losing its grip on power so it’s begun to cannibalize itself in a desperate bid to restore its dominance.
Just yesterday Trump admitted it was for the oil. Which also has the benefit of distracting from the Epstein files.
Afghanistan
Nothing to do with Al Qaeda
Maybe /pol/ isn’t the best source for deep thoughts.
Yeah that’s like, a very basic fact to mess up so badly. Noone seriously disputes that Al-Qaeda did 9/11 (not just “in partnership with” as though they were along for the ride) and the country the US invaded that had nothing to do with 9/11 was Iraq, not Afghanistan.
Americans have a collective memory that lasts more than 3 years challenge (impossible difficulty)
Yeah, like how people in Mexico do illegal things so USA should bomb the fuck out of Mexico, right? jfc.
The imperial mindset is strong here.
Nobody is talking bombings, mate, just arguing what “nothing to do” means.
This ain’t about (the scale of) military interventions, but about rhetorics and semantics.
If you wanna be morally superior, at least get your facts right.
Not that the 20 year occupation of Afghanistan wasn’t an absolute clusterfuck, but the Taliban were harbouring Al-Qaida leadership. To say otherwise is just denying historical facts.
